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500 Days of Summer (2009) colour palette

Directed by Marc Webb · Shot by Eric Steelberg

500 Days of Summer (2009), shot by Eric Steelberg, runs muted and strongly warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#312d2a), covering 10.6% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.807 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.196 — more saturated than 23% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.453 — brighter than 79% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the 500 Days of Summer page →

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